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Threads hits 175 million users on first anniversary (www.rawstory.com)

Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next (arstechnica.com)

But just as Glaze’s userbase is spiking, a bigger priority for the Glaze Project has emerged: protecting users from attacks disabling Glaze’s protections—including attack methods exposed in June by online security researchers in Zurich, Switzerland. In a paper published on Arxiv.org without peer review, the Zurich...

A Norwegian citizen has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to spy for China (apnews.com)

Saw the title and this is was all I could think about (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

As temperatures soar, judge tells Louisiana to help protect prisoners working in fields (wgno.com)

Amid blistering summer temperatures, a federal judge ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation, saying they face “substantial risk of injury or death.” The state immediately appealed the decision....

China is building a mammoth 8 GW solar farm (electrek.co)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17595046

80 Percent of Voters Now Say Biden Is Too Old to Run (www.msn.com)

Eighty percent of voters say President Joe Biden is too old to run as former president Donald Trump now leads Biden by six points following last week’s debate, a new poll finds.

Universal basic income is 'straight out of the Karl Marx playbook,' financial guru Dave Ramsey says (www.businessinsider.com)

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Judge blocks Biden trans healthcare discrimination ban from taking effect in early Loper-Bright test (www.salon.com)

Top Biden allies say he's still the best bet to win against Trump in November (www.nbcnews.com)

Netanyahu tried to derail the hostage deal even before Hamas responded (www.haaretz.com)

The main points were reported by the media on Wednesday: Even before Hamas responded to the Netanyahu-Biden proposal, the Prime Minister’s Office already knew what it would contain. Hamas’ flexibility came as a surprise to the man who said he supported the plan (which had been unanimously approved by the war cabinet) but who...

Russia: Putin critic Kara-Murza taken to hospital, says wife (www.dw.com)

Nationwide discount retailer with 1,400 stores sparks fears of mass closures as it mulls bankruptcy (www.dailymail.co.uk)

Kansas’ top court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering a state right to abortion access (apnews.com)

Kansas’ highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care professionals and a ban on a common second-trimester procedure, reaffirming its stance that the state constitution protects abortion access....

Hurricane Beryl regains strength as it approaches Mexico (www.nbcnews.com)

Glassdown: FOSS APKmirror client (github.com)

Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet (futurism.com)

Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.

Were jurors dismissed because they were Black or female? Supreme Court declines to review. (www.usatoday.com)

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Free looter shooter The First Descendant shares player ban details (www.pcgamesn.com)

Factorio: Space Age Expansion Releases October 21 (factorio.com)

We plan to release Factorio: Space Age expansion on October 21st 2024. The reasoning for this date is that it will give us enough time after summer vacations to polish the release, while also leaving enough time afterwards if we need to do bugfix patches before the Christmas holidays....